Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Recent Work

This is one of the pieces I have been experimenting with lately in effort to age the overall image. This is a shot of the local elevator from this past summer in Lake Park, Iowa (my parents home). I think this really falls in quite nicely with my formal aesthetic and love of line and geometry. In black and white the image really pops with a wide tonal range...I think it is lovely. But this toned image really captures the old photo look I am after (minus the precision of the digital print).

I have also tried this toning method with my previous experiment of boiling the emulsion off the fiber backing which adds another dimension of aging.

Tomorrow I have the privilege to teach the undergrad. advanced photo class a few of these methods.

Oh...and if you wanna buy a print...I would be happy to sell one...or seven.

An axis of access is a sacred place which our life revolves around. We hold them dear in our memory. They thrive in our imagination. They root us to this world.(To read more about the nature of this blog read the originating post from 08.07.07)